Los Angeles Lakers and basketball legend Kobe Bryant had a hunch that the Lakers’ President Jim Buss wanted him to leave the team. But Kobe wasn’t going to just retire.
Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN reports that Kobe was thinking of joining Phil Jackson at the New York Knicks:
Once, we were having dinner at Javier’s in Newport Beach and out of nowhere began one of our strangest conversations: Kobe was convinced that Lakers president Jim Buss wanted to amnesty the remaining money and years on his contract and force him to leave the Lakers. He had no evidence, just a hunch.
“That is never happening,” I told him. “They’d burn the city down.”
“I think he wants to do it,” Kobe insisted.
Well, what would happen then?
“I’ll go to New York and play for Phil [Jackson].”
